Social Transcendentalism

This substantial collection of essays, dialogues, notational aphorisms and maxims, originally dating from 1983-4 but revised 2019, is largely the reverse, in formal terms, of The Will to Truth, its philosophical precursor, inasmuch as its first part is essayistic and its second part entirely comprised of dialogues, thereby again bringing these two forms into harmony or, at any rate, close juxtaposition. Here, as before, the essays constitute the main aspect of the work, and they are once again conceived within the protective umbrella of a uniform ideology - namely the Social Transcendentalism which John O'Loughlin had been building towards in his earlier works, but which here comes to something approaching ideological fruition.Thus, whatever the subject, it is treated from a uniform ideological standpoint, the standpoint of a socially transcendent outlook on life, and this even when he is not consciously aware of the fact. Such an outlook is beyond humanism and all other worldly ideologies, whether of the left or the right, having to do with evolutionary striving towards a 'divine kingdom' which is, in a special centre-orientated sense, centrist in character. Yet this 'divine kingdom' does not follow death, as we customarily understand it, but presupposes the ordering of society according to certain idealistic principles designed to free mankind from its atomic past and indeed from itself, since the final outcome can only be supra-human in character. - A Centretruths editorial